VN - Unity - Completed - Robolife-Days with Aino [v1.2.1] [Barance Studio]

Robolife-Days with Aino [v1.2.1]

The game is very fun and original, has several hours of gameplay and you can replay it to get more scenes, which can be a good or bad thing depending on how much you want to start over, for which an unlock gallery button would have been nice.

In the graphic aspect I consider it is fine, but there are some images and parts in which it looks like with less resolution, on the other hand, the music and sound are very good.

In the H section it has a great variety of uncensored images of very good quality, but I feel that it lacks a lot more scenes and especially some animation.

In my opinion the game is very good, but it lacks a lot of polish in the H section, but leaving that aside, it is a very good game and I recommend playing it.

I give this game a 7.9 out of 10.

It's cute and well written. Not very long, but there are multiple paths so there's some replayability, and not much grinding. The art is top notch, and so are the h scenes. It would be nice if it were possible to restart at the point in the game where the player has to pick a certain path to go down so it's easier to try out the other ones.

Its like one of those trainer japanese games where you increase a girls stats so they can do more tasks although this one is using an android instead.

Its a great game in my opinion each path is quite different from each other so it was worth playing it 3 times and the writing was good enough, it aino and your interaction was always a nice read.

I discovered this game because I was looking for similar game to Idol Hands, but unfortunately this isn't it. I did enjoy my time with it, though it has a couple of pitfalls that prevents it from getting a perfect score.

First of all, even if you cheat, I think it's practically impossible to not start over from the start (with NG+) to see all endings. I tried and I even cheated to increase my money to 600,000 but I just can't do it. The time constraint is too tight and to unlock all modules, see all endings, and clear all side stories, you WILL need to play at least three times.

Second, the only ending that has a noticeable difference between variants is the Hacking ending. I don't know if something went know with my copy, but I fail to see what changed in the Weapon and Idol endings. I spent all this time trying to clear all 6 endings only to see little to no change in the story and honestly I feel like that's disrespecting. If there were a change, it would be AMAZING if they included an option where I can skip through all read text but stop when the current text is still unread.

I think this is just an extension of the first one but here goes anyway. Third, it is extremely grindy it's not even funny. You are severely constrained by time and resources that getting through the game, especially the Weapon ending, is a goddamned slog.

I wanted to use my better judgement and stop playing the game since after two endings it just wasn't fun anymore, but I kept playing because of the high rating and because of the time I already spent on it - might as well finish it.

I really, really want to give it a 3 stars instead of 4, but I cannot in good conscience say that this game is just average. Overall, it's a good game but holy fuck it sure did overstay its welcome.

Decent simulator game there is a main android heroine and other girls that have 1-3 scenes multiple interesting routes, good art, good humor, around 7 hours of gameplay, better than most things you will see on the market

+ Living with the best android.
+ Graphics.
+ General art style.
+ Gameplay mechanics.
+ In summary, good vanilla romance.

- No free play in the end. Like, for real, wtf?
- No free H-Scenes as well, kinda consecutive from the previous con.
- You need to minmax HARD and still will be missing out on some content. WHY NO FREEPLAY, AGAIN?
- "Yet Another Time-Consuming Cockblocking Fest"
- Some really stupid game design decisions.

Potential wasted. Could be more than just "Excellent", but by the end just "Average".

Also while H-Scenes are amusing, good graphics and on-point voicing, they are not animated nor interactive, just 2-3 static pictures. Didn't even fap.

For me in contrary to most people this game feels average. Don't get me wrong art is great, everything is super polished but I just couldn't get invested in a story and repetitive gameplay (work get money buy clothes repeat). If you are a person who doesn't care and just wants to see titties, then it's perfect for you.

Art 4.5/5
Story 3/5
Gameplay 2/5
Fapability 2.5/5
Originality 3/5

I don't speak eng well, so I'll be very brief.
Game is very chill and sweet, so because of its sweetness i completely forgot that is H game and played it only for characters. I really like them and that simple but happy ending story ( if you don't do shit ofc).
I'm usually used to "gray morals", ambiguous endings and generally to the cruelty of the real world, but this game just broke my dull world.
This game changed me and my life.
Idol route turned me from ignorant, hypocritical, conservative anime hater into a kindly weeb with unhealthy love of androids, AI, rationality, heterochromia, science, etc.
I entered this game with the intention of killing time and jerking off, but came out a completely different person.

i bought it in steam (and soundtrack too, holy fck menu theme gives me chills and stuck in my head forever)
I really would like to write a lot more, but I'm extremely lazy to translate all this correctly. I'll just ask you, if you completed the game then go to the menu and click on "barance cabin". To understand how much I like these developers, you need to listen to this.
Also in showroom you can make some aesthetic screenshots with cool effects and cute cat ears.
I hope this game will give you chill vibes like i had and make you a better person.
Aino and Verity are the best inorganic life forms I've ever seen <3

I decided to give this one a try, and next thing you know it was 4:30 in the morning.

This game is just sweet. It sucked up my hours and I didn't regret a thing.

For the basic rundown: it's a visual novel with some light RPG and management touches. The game revolves around you (self-insert protagonist, changeable name, you know the drill) and the android you just found in a trashheap.

Aino, the android, has stats and can be improved through new parts and modules. Her stats and skills determine which jobs you can do (and how well she'll do those jobs), which is necessary to earn money and unlock parts of the story.

There's a main story (which forks halfway through), multiple endings, and there are several subroutes. But you have a limited amount of time (turns) in-game, so you can't get to all content in a single playthrough.

As for the writing & story: it's good! Not stellar, and it's not high literature. But it doesn't pretend to be deep or fanciful either - it's a humorous entertaining sexy story about robot girls, and it's honest about that. Shounen skits, sometimes with boobs and sex.

And there are a few fun little details that aren't pointed out, but still make perfect sense in retrospect. For example, why is Aino mysteriously incapable of stabbing the MC to death right at the beginning? It seems like a silly one-off joke, but ehh... just look at the grand finale of the programmer/hacker route.

The cast is not very big, and there are no real alternative love interests. The three other major female characters might initially seem that way - but it pretty quickly becomes clear that the the MC isn't really interested in pursuing anyone but Aino. That said; the other girls do get some sexscenes, though...

As for the art, well... the art is just amazing. It's top-notch. Couldn't have asked for anything better. Both the regular art and the art in the sexscenes is varied and flawless.

The music in this game is really good too. Though this kind of electronic music is right up my alley, so I might be a bit biased here. Still, the tunes are catchy and easy to listen to. The closest thing to a flaw here is that there only seems to be a handful of songs.

The background info in the extras (which become available in the main menu after finishing the game once) say that this game is basically a labour of love. And as far as I'm concerned, it shows. You can tell that lots of love and effort went into this one.

And yet - it's still every bit as slick and polished as any professional title.

This one definitely deserves a 5 out of 5.

Great game, Art is high quality especially the CG. Story is good and there is a lot of hillarious moments and references. It has time limit but it's very lenient.

The grind might be an issue for some people but the grind events itself are quite quick. It also has enough story between the grinds or scenes from sidestories.

It has multiple routes and NG+ which means you can speed through the grinding parts to get to the story or sidestories you haven't done.

4/5

Declaimer: This is the point-of-view of a person who doesn't play a lot of VN.

Good points
I like the story very much and I enjoyed every second of it. I really like how different the story deviates for each route. My less favorite was the weapons route and it hurts me more since I already played the other 2 routes and seeing Aino hurt face was terrible. Another aspect of the story I liked is how they reference characters from other routes, making all the more fun catching that on other routes (the cat lover reference on the weapons route was great). The management part of the game was not bad, the Idol route was quite fun and challenging, I thought I wouldn't make it on time but just barely did. However the other routes was a cake walk. Finally the dress-up portion of the game was fun, seeing all the different clothes and the different tier for most of them.

Bad points
the game loop kind of a given and many other reviews already talked about it so that's as much as I say to that. There isn't a lot of CGs and I wished there was more. I'm sure this is not common in H-VN, but it doesn't let me jump to a certain turning point in the game where I can make a different choice. I usually like to try to 100% the game and fully immerse myself in the game and it's world so having something that help tracts my progress be nice. I'm not sure why, but it wouldn't let you save in a cutscene, which is bad since I don't save for every single action I do and this is usually on the end of the day for me and it autosaves in every start of the day so I had to go back to an old save I have and get back to that point. they're very minor nitpicks and shouldn't ruin your experience.

Overall
A fun game and I do recommend this. If you don't mind its bit grindy nature of this type of game and the other nitpick I've mention, I think you'll enjoy it. It's a fun story and made me really love Aino. Please support the developer, I've already paid the game in my support.

WARNING; POSSIBLE SPOILERS

The things I liked the most:

- The different activities you can do (gameplay can be a bit repetitive, but the different missions, secret CGs and interactions make it interesting).
- The art style (other games have art styles that I find cringe or that I just don't like, but not in this case).
- The voice acting I suppose?.
- The different outfits and their stronger variants.

The things I disliked the most:

- NTR; that scene with Niya sexually assaulting the MC, I wish they had given us the option to refuse having sex with her (instead of doing it anyway).
- The MC is a bit of a jerk (especially because he raped Aino at the beginning of the game, ignoring that fact for the rest of the playthrough, and then, "falling in love" with her).
- The story is alright I guess, but it needs some improvements on writing and less rushed endings.

Overall: 9/10.

I'll buy the game someday because they definitely deserve the money for their efforts, and I hope there's a sequel someday.

Reviewing Robolife-Days with Aino v1.2.1

Final Rating: 5 stars

TLDR: The game is simple compared to some aspirational competitors, but it is well balanced, fun, clean (in presentation, not content), polished, and finished, putting it miles ahead of 90% of its competition in the Trainer/Management VN Genre.

Gameplay: 4/5

The gameplay loop is simple enough, but executed nearly perfectly. It strikes the perfect balance between the two extremes often see in this genre - kinetic novels pretending to have choices, and sandbox games that get so lost in their own unfocused navel gazing that they forget to put an actual game in the 20 page feature list. If you are a Trainer Game aficionado you won't find any surprises here. The game works exactly as you'd expect. Manage a rationed pool of time to gain resources and raise stats to unlock scenes, story paths, and additional content. While there are no grand surprises or novel concepts at play, there's also no unfinished or under implemented resources, no confusing overcomplicated mechanisms, and no grindy time wasting systems. It's a perfectly balanced and obviously play tested system that delivers exactly what it sets out to at a satisfying pace, with enough choice and paths to feel satisfying without wasting your time or losing you.

The dress up mechanic is also extremely well implemented. choices matter and there are enough variety in clothing choices, with stats and skills, to allow you to complete your objective in multiple ways without feeling shoehorned in to one look. While the overwhelming number of skills does risk feeling bloated and confusing, it is saved by being very obvious which choices are optimal, and being very forgiving. You really only need to have one or two related skills to complete an objective, meaning there's no need to agonize over acheiving minmax perfection.

Graphics: 4/5

The art is very polished and professional. Again, while nothing in the game will blow your mind or stick with you forever, you'll never find yourself put off by poor anatomy, wonky perspective, or over all low or fluctuating quality. It gets the job done in a pleasing and professional manner, on par with any mainstream professional studio release.

Story: 5/5

The story is, in my opinion, perfect for the kind of game this is. It strikes the perfect balance between light hearted humor, and actual plot. You'll never be bogged down by pages of worldbuilding lore that no one but the creator cares about, asked to pretend you care about flat bland characters designed solely to be fucked, nor will you be forced to play another psychopath asshole with no morals in a world where handwavium fuels the game and nothing matters. It knows its a porn game, but it also knows a good story needs to provide emotional beats, light character development, and internal consistency. It's not Shakespeare, and it knows it shouldn't be. It also isn't a meme riddled mess that's shallow and dated hours after release, It is, in my opinion, the perfect balance for what it is trying to be.

A good VN. Mildly Impressive from a technical standpoint, and the art is great. But it lacks in the story department, a consequence of having 3 routes is that you can only get so crazy with the story. If your looking for a cute time waster or if a vaguely robot looking girl makes you pee-pee hard then you'll find a good time (or meat-curtain moist, let it never be said we aren't an inclusive band of god-defying degenerates). If your like me and are mainly here panning for hiden gems, then it's not going to be anything special.

Still, solid work. Throw the developer a bone if you end up playing it, good development practices deserve support.

Decent quality h-game. Wasn't for me tho.

Story 5/10

It was a unique story, but it wasn't a particularly good story. There are three main routes and I finished two of them. The "real" story and the "wtf" story. You pick which story you're going to go down when you pick a job.

WTF - Aino becomes an idol. What? Why? She wants to sing so she becomes an idol abandoning her previous desire to find out about herself.

Real - There's an encrypted data partition in this junkyard android you find. Spoilers ahead. The encryption is your mom. She was killed by a jealous android who's also sabotaging you. Your mind also gets fragmented into data. It's not very complicated, but just, not very believable. What are the chances that this junkyard robot that you happen to find is Aino? Nearly zero, but it happened. Niya faces no consequences for killing your mom and trying to kill you. I don't know, the story just wasn't very satisfying. But, credit where credit is due, the game makers tried and that's worth something.

Gameplay 4/10

The main game loop consists of 4 time periods in a day which you use to research parts, work, or do stuff around the map. This is the scene I saw and the scene which made me want to play the game. It wasn't that great. There's a lot of conditional events you need to fulfil to progress the plot and subplots and keeping it all in mind just wasn't fun.

Then there was Sunday events. For some reason, the game devs decided to place all the important plot events on Sunday. It takes all day and you had multiple chains of quests that take multiple Sundays. In hindsight, this was fine since you have ample time to complete everything. But how was I supposed to know that while I was playing the game for the first time?

Then the h-scenes. Common. Some h-scenes were just out of order. Like, you can see in the CGI that Aino is wearing some clothes that you haven't made yet. Like I have no idea what was up with this.

Art 5/10

Aino's cute. But there's a low number of base CGIs and a low number of variations. Like, this is why we're here. This needs to be done well.

Oh and you rape someone. In a slice of life game where you're supposed to fall in love with an android, there's just some casual rape thrown in. No biggie.

I suppose you also get raped so all is fair in the universe.

Overall 5/10

Not bad. Not great. Slice of life style android management game. Honestly, it was lacking that oomph. Not many games have it and I obviously don't think
Robolife has it.

5 star game! In general the overall quality is really the strong point, it's hard to find a game of comparable quality, you can see that they really put a lot of effort and attention on it. Congratulations to the team who I hope they will continue with games of the same quality!

good mix of porn and game , doesn't feel like mindless grinding. felt like a true game smh , plus the art is great and thk you for the game and yeah i liked it . great story too , about 3 different ending that's always a plus

This developer needs more patrons. Its an actual completed game, funny how uncompleted games get more patrons.

Art 5 out of 5. Just look at the screenshots
Plot 5 out of 5. Felt like chobits xD
Gameplay 5 out of 5. Its a VN, but the triggers were entertaining to get.
Sound/bgm/voice acting 5 out of 5. I like how the team was very frugal with the voice acting, not having voiced lines for every single sentence but rather having enough for the h scenes (most important) and to help emphasize a sentence. The robot sound effects from the voice actress, and the girly embarrassed noises were what was needed without blowing out the budgets with VAs.

One part time management, one part dress up game, one part comedy, and one part lewd androids. If you're looking for a decent VN, and like your girls metallic, this is a good option. The time management moves the story along without getting too aggressively in the way, the art is very good, the comedy is formulaic but amusing enough, and I'm reasonably fond of lewd anything, so it was right up my alley.

Having played fully through the programmer route of the game I feel I have gotten a good enough understanding of the game to credibly review it.

The core gameplay loop is of the typical state of time management visual novels where you split your time between doing jobs, upgrading stats (through research) and pursuing the completion of events to advance the story. All upgrades cause visible changes in Aina and can be mixed and matched from different sets in the head, torso and arm slots allowing for a lot of customisability. Gameplay itself should not pose too much of a challenge if you are familiar with time management but provides a decent amount of challenge especially as you try to keep pace with the regular assessments of your progress.

Events in general are numerous with a focus towards more humorous content with a small amount of drama in certain story routes and moments but this is almost always met with some humour afterward to lighten the mood.

There are occasional issues with the translation with awkward wording or inconsistent translations of the same term across multiple instances such as when listing the requirement of some task when the actual upgrade name may be slightly different. This seems more likely to be human error than Machine translation as far as I can tell and the quality is otherwise good throughout.

Characters in the story are for the most part typical for there archetype but feel likable and fulfil there roles in the story competently and in one instance even pulling off a twist that I didn't expect. Do not expect exceptional depth from any of them but in a humorous story lie this I feel they are good enough.

On the whole the game has been a very enjoyable experience and I would recommend at least giving it a try for anyone interested in a light-hearted robot them visual novel.

*EDIT* I have now played through all three routes of the game to there 'true' endings and so have some additional insight to grant. The idol and weapons routes both proved divergent enough in both story and character development to be fairly interesting. The game does the standard Visual Novel set up where different parts of the secondary caste receive focus on different routes to the extent that some of the female caste could be considered secondary heroines on the routes they feature in.
On the matter of challenge, I have for the most part got through the game easily enough except for on the idol where the need to complete a side quest to get some of the late game unlocks caused some issues but was resolved through reverting to an earlier save. As long as you have a decent understanding of time management in these types of game you should have minimal trouble.
On the whole having now finished the game it is a very solid and enjoyable example of a light-hearted and sexy visual novel with enough gameplay to remain engaging and a caste of tropey but charming characters. Would certainly recommend it to others interested in the genre.